11-17-2016 Connecticut:MERIDEN — Police have identified a decomposing body found in a Meriden apartment this month as that of an elderly man who was a registered sex offender.
The case is being investigated as a homicide.
Officers were called to the apartment Nov. 2 for reports of a body. Police on Wednesday identified the dead man as 73-year-old Thomas Wilderman.
Police have said that based on the state of decomposition, the man had not died recently.
Police say Wilderman's car was found in Hartford about two days after his body was found.
The Record-Journal reports Wilderman was convicted of sexual assaulting a minor in 1998. The state's sex offender registry indicates he was released from prison in July 2011. ..Source.. by The Bulletin
